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Big Science Business Forum 2024 – Trieste, Italy 155 Big Science Business Forum 2024 – Trieste, Italy 154 10.2. Site Visit 2 Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia 22 participants 10.1.2. Kyma The leading scientific research institute in Slovenia, with around 120 staff members, it carries out both basic and applied research in the natural sciences, life sciences, and engineering. Research areas include manufacturing and control technologies, communication and information technologies, biotechnology, new materials, environmental technologies, nanotechnology, and nuclear engineering. BSBF participants had the opportunity to visit: • The TRIGA Mark I reactor , the only research reactor in the country, built in the 1960s and used for research activities, training, and isotope production. It is an open-pool type reactor with a maximum thermal power of 250 kW. It can also operate in pulsed mode, reaching a peak power of 1 GW. A spin-off of Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Kyma is located in the Karst area near Trieste and is a leading supplier of permanent magnet devices. Since its founding in 2007, Kyma has focused on designing cutting-edge insertion devices for light sources, earning recognition from the global scientific community. Kyma provides a broad range of services and customized equipment tailored to clients’ needs. At Kyma’s Magnetic Laboratory, visitors were welcomed into a 660 m² production hall featuring a 220 m² temperature-controlled chamber, where the Kyma team designs, assembles, and measures magnets using advanced, highly precise custom measurement systems. The facility also includes two Hall probe benches and rotating coils to capture magnetic field profiles, along with a 38 m² clean room for in-vacuum structure assembly. • The Microanalytical Center, which houses Slovenia’s only 2 MV “Tandetron” ion research accelerator. Ion acceleration occurs electrostatically in a direct electric field provided by a rectifier at up to 2 MV (two million volts). Tandetron is among the most technologically advanced electrostatic accelerators; high voltage is generated by a semiconductor-diode rectifier, with no moving mechanical parts. The Microanalytical Center specializes in the use of accelerated ion beams for research inmaterials, nuclear fusion, biology, medicine, space, and archaeometry. After visiting JSI, participants were taken on a pleasant guided tour of Ljubljana. 10.3. Site Visit 3 National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) and Grotta Gigante 31 participants 10.3.1. National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) The National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS is a public research body overseen by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR). It operates internationally in the fields of physical, chemical, biological, and geological oceanography, experimental and exploratory geophysics, seismology, and engineering seismology. OGS maintains research facilities in three locations near Trieste: Borgo Grotta Gigante (main headquarters), Miramare, and Santa Croce. Among the many research sites and infrastructures of OGS, BSBF visitors were able to see the Naval Tank , an oceanographic facility for preliminary checks before installing oceanographic instruments in situ, typically used in measurement campaigns or fixed observation sites. The tank serves as a laboratory for testing oceanographic instrumentation and for experimenting with prototypes developed in the OGS Oceanography Section labs. Research Institution Visits